Matt Shepard Out After Five as Bally Sports Tigers' PBP...

[Kidcat]

Ron Cameron should be considered
Bally sports would have to pony up,a lot of cash in order for Cameron to give up his lucrative brokered radio gig.

[MasterB]

Will be someone in house Bally Sports Detroit family in my opinion that takes over Matt Shepard, Rod Allen was hired and was in the booth for the Marlins in 2022 I don't know if he is still doing play by play for the Marlins I wouldn't take him back because going WWE on Mario for no reason. I thought that Rod & Mario were pals I didn't know they had a big beef with each other.

[CJ]

Could it be a money move being Bally is in bankruptcy and trying to survive?

[Mega Hertz]

I went to high school with Dan Hasty. The guy has always been passionate about baseball and has a great delivery for the game. I'd love to see him get a shot.

[edj]

Rod Allen was horrendous. Nothing but stupid catch phrases. Mario was very vanilla, though not as much as Shepard.

[Trophyhead]

I have been hearing Rod in Marlins highlight clips this season on mlb.com, though he is not play by play. He rode his hot start in '84 about as far as anyone possibly could have, and always seemed like a Rolodex analyst, may well have been in place doing the proper gathering to support the content but when the chips were down, the cue card phrases were "Country Strong" in his hand.

How about Greg Gania in Erie?

[edj]

I haven't heard many Seawolves broadcasts. Not sure offhand who does TV for the Mud Hens- radio is still Jim Weber but he's not an option.

[Trophyhead]

Gania had the call for the combined no-hitter the Tigers spun back on July 8 (which in the strictest scoring sense, is not a "thing"). I felt he did a very, very good job then. His first fill in on the Radio Network was '18, as I recall it.

[windsorjoe]

Greg Ganda did a good job when I heard him do fill In. I feel the Tigers need to have a very strong broadcaster. I’m going to throw one out there that has some baggage but I always liked his work on football and baseball… Thom Brennaman

[Matt]

Ron Cameron should be considered
Bally sports would have to pony up,a lot of cash in order for Cameron to give up his lucrative brokered radio gig.

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[ral315]

I’m going to throw one out there that has some baggage but I always liked his work on football and baseball… Thom Brennaman

Some baggage... the word "some" is doing a lot of work there.

I'm gay, and I've followed various articles over the past couple years about his attempts to make things right with the LGBTQ+ community after his use of the slur. I'm cautiously willing to forgive him. But the problem is that he's not a significantly better broadcaster than the other options available.

If Thom Brennaman was a hall-of-fame broadcaster, he'd probably get another chance. But he's merely good - and there are a lot of good broadcasters out there looking for jobs, most of whom haven't said something horrifying on a live mic. And it certainly doesn't help that his apology has been memed so much that even people who don't know his name have heard the "and there's a drive by Castellanos..." jokes.

As for the other options - I think Bally will be looking for local / internal options more than a large search, no matter what they might say. They're not gonna want to shell out a ton of money, and your top candidates would be foolish not to seek guarantees of money up-front, given Diamond Sports Group's bankruptcy proceedings. Joe Davis isn't gonna drop the Dodgers to come to BSD if his contract could be voided or forcibly restructured in the bankruptcy process six months later.

[MWmetalhead]

Fun fact:
Brennaman called Magglio's walk off home run to clinch the ALCS win in 2006.

I do not believe he would be a good hire. He has forfeited the privilege to broadcast at a major league level, in my opinion. Hiring someone so polarizing would be bad for business.

I did like his on-air work before his infamous incident. One must wonder if he was often a total asshole when the mics were off.

His father, Marty, *is* a HOF worthy broadcaster, by the way.

At the end of the day, Dan will probably move to TV and radio duties will probably mostly be handled by the guy from Erie (with occasional appearances from Hasty). That's my prediction.

[CurlyHoward]

Thom WAS a solid broadcaster, although his man crush on Tim Tebow when calling Florida games made John Madden's worship of Brett Favre look restrained. But the Tigers don't need that distraction.

[BirdieKingBobo]

Call me crazy... but I can see Bally showing the game on the television and some how broadcasting the radio play by play at the same time... It would save them a lot of money that they don't have.

[MrTaterSalad]

Could the Tigers snag Joe Davis from the Dodgers for play-by-play duties? Davis is a Michigan kid from the Lansing area and I would presume grew up watching the Tigers.